Poor Weather Delays Planned Black Sea Drill

Bad weather in the western Black Sea has delayed by one day the start of planned joint drills of U.S., Bulgarian and Romanian naval forces, the Bulgarian defense ministry said Tuesday.

The USS Truxtun, a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer, is scheduled to take part in the routine exercise along with Bulgarian and Romanian warships in waters some 600 kilometer west of the Crimean Peninsula seized by Russia-backed military groups from Ukraine.